Biography: Minghui Zhu is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Penn State in 2013, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of California, San Diego in 2011. He was a joint appointee as Senior Engineer in the Optimization and Controls Department at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research interests lie in distributed control and decision-making of multi-agent networks with applications in robotic networks, security and the smart grid. He is an author of the book “Distributed optimization-based control of multi-agent networks in complex environments” (Springer, 2015). He is a recipient of the Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professorship in Engineering at Penn State in 2013, the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2019, the Superior Paper Award of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in 2024 and the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award in 2025. He is an associate editor of Automatica, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems and the IET Cyber-systems and Robotics.

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